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Saddam ordered to kill an Australian aid
worker, helping Iraqi Kurds
22.3.2008
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March 22, 2008
It's been revealed that
Saddam Hussein's regime had an Australian aid worker
killed as part of a state-sponsored terror program.
The Weekend Australian says top-secret Iraqi
documents confirm for the first time that Care
Australia worker Stuart Cameron was shot in Iraq in
1993 as part of a government campaign against
foreign aid workers helping Kurds in the country's
north.
It says a plan to "eliminate" the former US
ambassador to Israel, Australian-educated Martin
Indyk, was considered as part of the terror program.
The paper says that on the fifth anniversary of the
US-led invasion of Iraq, which toppled Saddam's
regime,www.ekurd.net
the sweep of his
terrorist activities and plotting have been revealed
in millions of documents gathered by allied forces
from Baath party offices and Saddam's palaces. |
 
Killed ... Aussie aid worker Stuart Cameron (L)
Former bloody dictator Saddam Husein |
The documents are contained in a US Institute for
Defence Analyses report released by the Pentagon,
which says they provide "strong evidence that links
the regime of Saddam Hussein to regional and global
terrorism".
In one letter, Iraqi intelligence boasts about its
performance after killing Mr Cameron, a former
Australian army major and father of two, and other
aid workers. At the same time, however, Saddam's
regime was publicly expressing outrage and blaming
Mr Cameron's death on Kurds.
The documents also detail correspondence from a
terrorist operative in the Gaza Strip sent to Baath
party officials in Baghdad, in which a plot is
discussed to kill Mr Indyk, a world-renowned scholar
on the Middle East who twice served as US ambassador
to Israel.
The letter says Mr Indyk is an "Australian Jew" who
when appointed as ambassador caused "pandemonium at
the CIA, who accused him of working with the Israeli
Mossad", a reference to Israel's secret service.
Mr Indyk, who was born in Britain but attended
school and university in Australia, was unaware of
the letter or the plot until contacted by The
Weekend Australian yesterday. Shown a copy,www.ekurd.net
he said the letter was
written on the day he left Israel as ambassador,
adding: "If they wanted to bump me off, they were a
bit slow."
The newly released document states: "The operation
that killed the Australian was executed by a group
co-operating with our directorate, on the Jam Jamal-Bazian
road on January 7." It details other aid-worker
killings and the program to disrupt relief flowing
to the Kurds.
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